Antemortem

A short goodbye and thank you.

LZ-129 Hindenburg was the pride and joy of the Zeppelin company. The rigid airship took its final voyage in May 1937. Big and buoyant, its failure singlehandedly ruined commercial travel via dirigible.

This episode is torture.

Lizzie Borden may or may not have given her father and stepmother a collective 31 whacks. We'll learn about the inhabitants of the household and their supposed whereabouts at the time of the infamous murders. Then, Lizzie goes to trial.

In July 2005, four terrorists attacked London at rush hour. We look at who they were and how it happened. A cameo from the Mother of Satan.

Goodbye, Galen. Hello, cyberknife!

In this episode, John Hunter saves some legs and Civil War surgeons remove quite a few. Luckily for the soldiers, chloroform is in use.

When it came to cutting people open during the medieval period and renaissance, the barber surgeon reigned supreme. The bandages were drunk, the c-sections were deadly, and da Vinci was slicing bodies open left and right.

We're on episode 100 and it's time for Antemortem to have surgery! Part one of this series covers surgical practices of the ancient world. The doctors and "doctors" in this episode will be trepanning, castrating, and gently shoving someone's exposed intestines back inside their body.